2. The Pride of the Heavens

Today, the weather was exceptionally good.

The weather is clear and the wind is smooth.

Daliang Mountain, shrouded in clouds and mist, hazy and ethereal, like a fairyland on earth.

At the foot of a mountain, there are dozens of families, surrounded by mountains and rivers, with layers of stone houses.

At this time, in the early morning, chickens and dogs smell each other, and birds sing and flowers are fragrant.

This is Chenliu Village, in this village, every family is surnamed Chen, and all of them are Yi people.

The air is fresh and peaceful.

When a red sun breaks through the clouds, revealing a shy face, a ray of sunshine spreads on the earth through the mountains.

A little girl, from one floor, jumped out.

This is a smart and lovely little girl.

She was only a teenager, with long hair and a shawl, a lace dress, and a flower handkerchief on her head.

At this moment, she was carrying a back basket and holding a sickle, and on her delicate face, a sweet smile was revealed.

The most important thing is that her eyes are very bright, very bright, like the sun on the horizon.

In those smart eyes, there seems to be a world, and there, as if there are hundreds of millions of stars, flashing with blazing light.

"Ah, where is Xiaoxi going! It's the weekend of now, and I don't go to school, and I wake up so early! ”

At the door, in a small courtyard, a woman said with a smile.

Here, there are a lot of people gathering together to mow the lawn, both men and women.

The man was dressed in green clothes, with a black handkerchief on his head, and the woman's dress was exactly the same as Chen Xi's.

Seeing Chen Xi walk out, everyone's eyes fell on her, very curious.

"Auntie, uncle, hello!" Chen Xi smiled sweetly, "I'm going to the mountains to pick medicine, my grandma is playing straw sandals, it's not easy to sell, I'm going to pick some medicine, and I'll go to the next market to sell it!" ”

"Hey, you girl, you're not allowed to go!" A group of people rushed forward, "There's a big worm on the mountain, haven't you heard of it?" You're only ten years old, it's dangerous to go alone, and besides, you're so old, where can you recognize herbs! Listen to the eldest mother, be obedient at home, your big tiger brother is also at home, go and play with him! ”

"Thank you for your concern, I recognize it!" Chen Xi said, squeezing out the crowd and walking outside the village.

"Why is this girl so tough? Same as her aunt! The crowd was talking and helpless.

"Her parents are also relieved of her, hey, it's just such a child, and she doesn't feel distressed!"

"This girl, I heard that her grades are very good, she goes to school late, she is only in the second grade at the age of ten, but she is the first in the exam every year, and the school gives her free tuition!"

"What's the use of the girl's family, if you study more, you don't want to get married in the future? Look at her aunt, she is twenty-eight years old, although she is a college student and has read so many books, it is not that she can't get married? ”

"You can't say that, your family gave birth to a son, why is there no Xiaoxi who is promising? When he goes to school, he is still protected by Xi Yatou, otherwise, he doesn't know how many times he has been expelled! ”

"That's it, this child, since she was a child, helped the family do housework, you see when her aunt played straw shoes, she also helped beat the grass, I heard that there is a female teacher in their school, especially like her, specially teach her to play the piano, she only studied for two years, she went to the county competition, and won a prize, won a bonus of more than 1,000 yuan!"

"This girl, when she was just born, she still talked long and short one by one, you see now, which one doesn't like her? She just has a stubborn temper, hey, her father too, and he doesn't look at her, at such a young age, he is relieved to let her go to the mountains alone. ”

"It's okay, let's go mow the grass, look at the point, there are a lot of people, but I'm not afraid, hard-working child!"

"I'm worried about that big worm, I didn't have it before, I only found it in the last few months, and I don't know where it came from!"

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"Walking on the country road, the old cow returning at dusk is my companion, the blue sky with the sunset in the chest, and the colorful clouds are the clothes of the sunset......"

On a small road, Chen Xi sang a song, carried a basket, and walked out of the village.

She heard all the words of the aunt and uncle, but she didn't want to argue about anything.

She had been thinking about her aunt's words.

My aunt said that if you want to be angry, you must have a chance, and in the future, go out of the mountains and go to the outside world to see, only to know that this world is colorful.

When there is a future, I will return to my hometown to build roads, build bridges, and develop the economy for my hometown.

Although she is young, she is very intelligent, and under the guidance of her aunt, she has an infinite yearning for the outside world.

The teacher also said that in the town, only junior high schools can be run, and if you want to make a profit, you have to go to Chengdu, where there are the best schools in the world.

She wants to go to Chengdu, but her mother is sick, her father is honest, and the family is financially constrained, so she must be self-reliant, save more money from now on, and use it for school in the future.

Mom and Dad are so worried that she wants to share a little for the family.

Those words of the aunt and uncle, she knows, is concerned about her, but she is not afraid, every mountain here, she used to follow her aunt around, and she is very familiar with it.

At the beginning, my aunt was also self-reliant and walked into the university hall on her own.

My aunt can, and so can she.

With a basket on his back and a sickle on his back, Chen Xi came to a river, staggered across an iron chain bridge, and drilled into the mountains and forests.

She was very thin, but she was very nimble, and with a scythe to open her way, she passed from one mountain forest to another.

Not long after, most of the herbs were already in her back basket, including mulberry leaves, bupleurum, kudzu, and cimicifuga......

She was so happy that she rested under a birch tree.

"Today's harvest is good, it would be nice if my aunt was here!" Chen Xi wiped the beads of sweat from his forehead, and his delicate face showed a look of longing.

She hadn't seen her aunt for a long time, almost a year.

I heard that my aunt was in Chengdu, but I didn't write a letter.

"Huh?" Suddenly, Chen Xi's eyes lit up.

She found a reishi mushroom.

It grew not far from the opposite side of her, under an old tree, it grew very well, like a dark purple umbrella, and like an elegant and quiet girl, without quarrel with the world.

Chen Xi stood up and walked step by step, she was hesitating whether to pick or not.

But at that moment, she slipped on her feet, fell, and rolled down the slope.

Before he could shout, the petite figure landed on a tree.

"My herbs!" Chen Xi exclaimed, the herbs in her basket had been scattered all over the ground.

She tried to struggle, but found that the basket was stuck on the branch, and her hand was pinned and she couldn't move.

"Ao ......" was at this moment, a tiger roared, and the whole mountain forest was completed.

Chen Xi was shocked and raised his eyes to ......

I saw a big insect, tall and mighty, with golden veins on its back, and most importantly, on its head, there was a king character.

At this moment, it walked along the landslide and walked towards Chen Xi step by step.

"Big Tiger!" Chen Xi's eyes rolled, for some reason, she was not afraid at all.

She looked at it closely, curious.

"Boil!" At this moment, the big insect jumped up and pounced on Chen Xi's petite body.

"Don't eat me!" Chen Xi began to nervous and closed his eyes.

The next moment, she felt her arm loosen and slowly opened her eyes.

She realized that the branch pinned to her hand had been bitten off, and her back basket had also fallen to the ground.

At this moment, the big worm, hanging on the tree, licked the back of her hand.

"Ah, you're so cute!" Chen Xi became bold, and even reached out to touch the head of the big insect.

What surprised her was that this big insect actually closed its eyes meekly and enjoyed her touch.

"Giggles!" Chen Xi chuckled, jumped down from the tree, put the basket back on his back, and picked up the herbs on the ground.

"It's a pity, some of the medicine is crushed!" Chen Xi sighed lightly, came to the Ganoderma lucidum, held his chin, and still wanted to pick it or not.

"Forget it, I'll leave it to you, although I don't know if you like Lingzhi or not!" Chen Xi turned around and came to the big worm's side.

"Big Tiger, do you have a name?" Big eyes kept flickering, Chen Xi asked.

"Weng!" The tiger snorted.

"Will you take me home?" Chen Xi touched the tiger's head and asked.

As if in response to her, the tiger actually fell down.

"Giggles!" Chen Xi climbed onto the tiger's back and shouted, "Call you Ah Hua Okay Ah Hua, my home is there, let's go home!" ”

"Ao!" With a long roar, the tiger kicked on its hind legs, carried Chen Xi, jumped down the mountain forest, and came to the river.

At this time, on the other side of the river, there were young men and women, carrying knives and sticks, who rushed one after another, and happened to see this scene.

Almost everyone was stunned and didn't come back to their senses for a long time.

What do they see?

That girl actually rode a tiger and drank water by the river.

"Xiaoxi!" A man and a woman, shouting on the other side of the river, panicked.

They were Chen Xi's parents, and when they heard the roar of the tiger, they gathered a crowd to come with weapons in Chen Xi's mountain forest.

"Mom, Dad, I'm home! I'm fine! Chen Xi shouted, jumping down from the tiger's back, "Ah Hua, I'm leaving, I'll come to play with you another day!" ”

"Ao!" The tiger rubbed on Chen Xi's body, and in an instant, he rushed into the mountains and forests.

"Xiaoxi, Xiaoxi!" At this time, the crowd crossed the chain bridge one after another and came towards Chen Xi's bee chrysalis.

"Kid!" A woman hugged Chen Xi tightly in her arms, "You scared your mother to death!" ”

"What's wrong with you?" Chen Xi was puzzled, and then said happily, "Mom, I picked a lot of medicines today, and I can sell them for hundreds of yuan, giggles!" ”

"The Pride of the Sky!"

At this time, an old man, on crutches, came to Chen Xi, and a fine light flashed in his vicissitudes of life.

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